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Bacteria Eat Styrofoam
chaosmage42 writes "Scientists at the University of Dublin have found a way to break down styrofoam, the bane of recyclers/composters everywhere. This could be a great step towards sustainability, but it does require the styrofoam to be heated first."
Unfortunately, eating the styrofoam causes the bacteria to shit lead. Give a penny, take a penny.
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Anyway, the scientists fed this styrene oil to the soil bacteria Pseudomonas putida, which converted it into biodegradable plastic known as PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoates).
The next step for University College Dublin researchers is to get the bacteria to excrete Guinness.
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Just disolve the styrofoam with gasoline and tada, you have napalm. Bingo bango, problem solved!
Krylon spraypaint also eats away at it.
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now if they could only fart ozone..
perhaps, but definitely not the first post by organisms with the same intelligence level as bacteria.
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My last experiment with aquatic ecosystems ended rather badly, unfortunately. I was raising a sea monkey colony. One night, I was enjoying a few beers, and I suddenly decided I had to know whether sea monkeys also liked beer. Science in action!
Alas, sea monkeys do *not* like beer. I'm not sure if it's the various carbohydrates, yeasts and soforth that so disagreed with them, or if they just can't hold their liquor.
...who swallowed a cat
How about that? She swallowed a cat!
She swallowed the cat to catch the rat,
She swallowed the rat to catch the spider
That wiggled and jiggled and tiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
She swallowed the fly to catch the bacteria,
She swallowed the bacteria to catch the styrofoam,
I don't know why she swallowed the styrofoam,
Perhaps she'll experience lead-hydrocarbon toxicity effects.
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I was going to say that too... but then you have to get rid of the napalm somehow. But then it's not a waste problem anymore. It's a military problem!
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She calls them "rice cakes", though.
Styrofoam (R) is a Trademark of The Dow Chemical COmpany. What this article is talking about is normal polystyrene such as taht used in cups.
Don't you just then push the blue button and your laptop recreates itself? That's what you do when your laptop gets eaten by little red bugs...
Why does anyone wanna read about bread anyway?
You are all a bunch of idots.
Even lowly bacteria.
90% of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.